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<h2>Automobile Data from 'Consumer Reports' 1990</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>Data on 111 cars, taken from pages 235&ndash;255, 281&ndash;285 and 287&ndash;288 of the
April 1990 <em>Consumer Reports</em> Magazine.
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(car90)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

  
<p>The data frame contains the following columns
</p>

<dl>
<dt>Country</dt><dd><p>a factor giving the country in which the car was
manufactured</p>
</dd>
<dt>Disp</dt><dd><p>engine displacement in cubic inches</p>
</dd>
<dt>Disp2</dt><dd><p>engine displacement in liters</p>
</dd>
<dt>Eng.Rev</dt><dd><p>engine revolutions per mile, or engine speed at 60 mph</p>
</dd>
<dt>Front.Hd</dt><dd><p>distance between the car's head-liner and the head
of a 5 ft. 9 in. front seat passenger, in inches, as measured by CU</p>
</dd>
<dt>Frt.Leg.Room</dt><dd><p>maximum front leg room, in inches, as measured by CU</p>
</dd>
<dt>Frt.Shld</dt><dd><p>front shoulder room, in inches, as measured by CU</p>
</dd>
<dt>Gear.Ratio</dt><dd><p>the overall gear ratio, high gear, for manual transmission</p>
</dd>
<dt>Gear2</dt><dd><p>the overall gear ratio, high gear, for automatic transmission</p>
</dd>
<dt>HP</dt><dd><p>net horsepower</p>
</dd>
<dt>HP.revs</dt><dd><p>the red line&mdash;the maximum safe engine speed in rpm</p>
</dd>
<dt>Height</dt><dd><p>height of car, in inches, as supplied by manufacturer</p>
</dd>
<dt>Length</dt><dd><p>overall length, in inches, as supplied by manufacturer</p>
</dd>
<dt>Luggage</dt><dd><p>luggage space</p>
</dd>
<dt>Mileage</dt><dd><p>a numeric vector of gas mileage in miles/gallon as
tested by CU; contains NAs.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Model2</dt><dd><p>alternate name, if the car was sold under two labels</p>
</dd>
<dt>Price</dt><dd><p>list price with standard equipment, in dollars</p>
</dd>
<dt>Rear.Hd</dt><dd><p>distance between the car's head-liner and the head of
a 5 ft 9 in. rear seat passenger, in inches, as measured by CU</p>
</dd>
<dt>Rear.Seating</dt><dd><p>rear fore-and-aft seating room, in inches,
as measured by CU</p>
</dd>
<dt>RearShld</dt><dd><p>rear shoulder room, in inches, as measured by CU</p>
</dd>
<dt>Reliability</dt><dd><p>an ordered factor with levels <span class="samp">Much worse</span> &lt;
<span class="samp">worse</span> &lt; <span class="samp">average</span> &lt; <span class="samp">better</span> &lt; <span class="samp">Much
	better</span>: contains <code>NA</code>s.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Rim</dt><dd><p>factor giving the rim size</p>
</dd>
<dt>Sratio.m</dt><dd><p>Number of turns of the steering
wheel required for a turn of 30 foot radius, manual steering</p>
</dd>
<dt>Sratio.p</dt><dd><p>Number of turns of the steering
wheel required for a turn of 30 foot radius, power steering</p>
</dd>
<dt>Steering</dt><dd><p>steering type offered: manual, power, or both</p>
</dd>
<dt>Tank</dt><dd><p>fuel refill capacity in gallons</p>
</dd>
<dt>Tires</dt><dd><p>factor giving tire size</p>
</dd>
<dt>Trans1</dt><dd><p>manual transmission, a factor with levels <span class="samp"></span>,
<span class="samp">man.4</span>, <span class="samp">man.5</span> and <span class="samp">man.6</span></p>
</dd>
<dt>Trans2</dt><dd><p>automatic transmission, a factor with levels <span class="samp"></span>,
<span class="samp">auto.3</span>, <span class="samp">auto.4</span>, and <span class="samp">auto.CVT</span>.  No car is
missing both the manual and automatic transmission variables, but
several had both as options</p>
</dd> 
<dt>Turning</dt><dd><p>the radius of the turning circle in feet</p>
</dd>
<dt>Type</dt><dd><p>a factor giving the general type of car.
The levels are: <span class="samp">Small</span>, <span class="samp">Sporty</span>, <span class="samp">Compact</span>, <span class="samp">Medium</span>, <span class="samp">Large</span>, <span class="samp">Van</span></p>
</dd>
<dt>Weight</dt><dd><p>an order statistic giving the relative weights of the
cars; 1 is the lightest and 111 is the heaviest</p>
</dd>
<dt>Wheel.base</dt><dd><p>length of wheelbase, in inches, as supplied by manufacturer</p>
</dd>
<dt>Width</dt><dd><p>width of car, in inches, as supplied by manufacturer</p>
</dd>
</dl>


<h3>Source</h3>

<p>This is derived (with permission) from the data set <code>car.all</code> in
S-PLUS, but with some further clean up of variable names and definitions.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>car.test.frame</code>,
<code>cu.summary</code> for extracts from other versions of the dataset.
</p>


<h3>Examples</h3>

<pre>
data(car90)
plot(car90$Price/1000, car90$Weight,
     xlab = "Price (thousands)", ylab = "Weight (lbs)")
mlowess &lt;- function(x, y, ...) {
    keep &lt;- !(is.na(x) | is.na(y))
    lowess(x[keep], y[keep], ...)
}
with(car90, lines(mlowess(Price/1000, Weight, f = 0.5)))
</pre>


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